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Aiden’s Woes
Aiden woke up screaming and didn’t stop all day. Tylenol wasn’t much help. I took him to the doctor, and they confirmed what I suspected: a double ear infection.
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Like We Didn’t Know
Found an online nerd test. Like we didn’t know what the score was going to be. Take the test and post your scores in the comments… UPDATE: I didn’t know that y’all can’t post images, so just post your scores in the comments. Can anyone honestly beat my score?
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Dig Any Holes Lately?
Every now and then, you see stories that are so deliciously ironic that you have to laugh out loud. Today, I found one… Annette “Flirty” Stevens, president of the Springfield chapter of the Million Mom March, an organization that aims to “prevent gun violence”, was arrested last week when police allegedly found an illegal gun […]
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Sick! Pt. 2
One of my favorite authors, Nancy Wilson, devoted an entire chapter to “When the Kids are Sick” in her book “Praise Her in the Gates: The Calling of Christian Motherhood.” I was thinking about it while shoveling snow this morning. (Yes, it was quite a storm – and it’s a very heavy, wet snow. The […]
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Sick! Ugh…
I’m sick. It’s horrible. Major head congestion, sore throat, inflamed sinuses and a fever. First, Thomas got sick – fever and a cough. Thomas also gets crazy night terrors when he’s sick. Then, Tabitha got sick – coughing so hard she was throwing up. (She is one tough kid. As she was throwing up, I […]
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One Complaint Upheld by Presbytery
Just got back from the information meeting with the Heritage Presbytery Judicial Committee Commission over our recent complaints. The summary is that they denied our first complaint and upheld our second complaint against our Session. Sarah and I are very pleased at the outcome, and based on what the Presbytery commissioners said, the first complaint […]
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Knife Holder with a Message
misc/stabbykniferackI guess you wouldn’t get your spouse this knifeholder for a present. I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see it myself, but this kitchen accessory looks like a human form being stabbed by multiple knives. Perhaps there’s some art angle that I’m missing, but I can’t see how anyone would want this in […]
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Intellectual Property
I’ve created a new category to organize my thoughts on intellectual property, copyrights, and their relationship to Biblical ethics. As I said in a previous post, I’ve been working occasionally on a book on what scripture says about the subject. I think Christians have bought the party line, and we need to do some serious […]
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Discernment
Saw this quote originally written in Christianity Today by Lewis Smedes: Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard. Reality is always deucedly complicated; any human situation has far more to it than first meets anybody’s eye. No one has twenty-twenty discernment. This is why […]
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Or It Could Be Swollen Tonsils
Young Tilly Merrell, a seven-year-old girl from England, had never eaten solid food, since she was diagnosed as a child baby with Bulbar Palsy, a condition the necessitates being fed via a tube into her stomach. Friends of hers raised a collection to send her to America for treatment of her condition, but upon arrival, […]
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My New Laptop
Sarah and I had been going back and forth on the status of our computers. She’s been spending more time writing in the past few months, and we’ve started to have issues with the kids playing downstairs and the computers in the office upstairs. For a while, Sarah had been wondering about a computer downstairs, […]
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Sin City
From the Consular Information Sheet on Japan: Concerns Regarding Roppongi, Tokyo: We note that an American Citizen was murdered in early December 2004 in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. The murder occurred in an office building within walking distance of the local police station. A second foreigner (not an American) was stabbed to death in […]
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New Church Members?
A week ago Sunday, we had a couple guys in our church stand before the congregation and answer the “membership questions” that our pastor asks all new church members.
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Money Where Your Mouth Is
misc/3mmoneyglassHere’s putting your money where your mouth is. 3M has created an ad in a bus stop advertising their security glass. It’s not all cash, but the top and bottom of each stack are $20 bills, so there is still a significant amount of change. Regardless, I think it’s just a great ad. (via 37 […]
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Make Your Own Crime Scene
misc/crimeDownloadable from Microsoft Templates is “Crime scenes with shapes” for Visio, complete with dead bodies, pools of blood and murder weapons. It requires Visio 2003 to open, but the sample picture is enough to make anyone scratch their head and go “hmmm…”. I couldn’t link to the template directly, but it is filed under “Legal->For […]